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Spindle-Back Armchair
•Date: 1640-80
•Geography: Possibly made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Possibly made in Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States
•Culture: American
•Medium: Ash
•Dimensions: 44¾ × 23½ × 15¾ in. (113.7 × 59.7 × 40 cm)
•Classification: Furniture
•Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1951
•Accession Number: 51.12.2
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 708.
The rarest and grandest of the early turned chairs are those with rows of spindles below the seat as well as above it. Although its boxlike form may look simple at first glance, this chair is a complex composition with subtle variations in the shaping of the rungs and in the spacing of its horizontal and vertical members.
Provenance
Descended through eight generations in the family of John Tufts, Sherborn, Massachusetts; Wallace Nutting, Framingham, Massachusetts, by 1921; Mrs. J. Insley Blair, Tuxedo Park, New York, 1921-died 1951.
Timeline of Art History (2000-Present)
Essays
•American Furniture, 1620-1730: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles
Timelines
•The United States, 1600-1800 A.D.
MetPublications
•American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. I, Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles
•The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•“A Bicentennial Treasury: American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan”: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 33, no. 4 (Winter, 1975-1976)
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 9, The United States of America
Spindle, dis-assembled. The parts are arranged along a horizontal axis. There are two rows. The top row shows the main spindle and the body that it fits into. The bottom row shows the 6mm internal shaft. The arrangement shows the items that would be on top (during operation) on the left. Note the spring loading on the 6mm shaft. Is this the drawbar? I also discovered (after disassembly) that this inner shaft is threaded on the "business" end (right hand side, or "bottom" end.) This 6mm shaft has been broken off at this threaded end. Perhaps why the spindle was removed from its machine and discarded? I note the threads are also 1mm. Could this be the drawbar? What collet sizes would fit on such a threaded shaft?
5/1/08
The spindle is purpleheart wood.
Hand-carded Samoyed fiber from “Meijo,” spun on a Viking Santa purpleheart top whorl spindle. Very soft, like angora!
42.0 yards (38.4 m) DK weight skein
On my fossils spindle. It has some of my best fossil finds in it, including a little ichthyosaur bone (the one at the front in the pic). The fibre is a merino/silk/silver blend from Fyberspates.
I made the spindles from scrapwood, chopsticks and an incenseholder. The nostepinne was made from a hazeltree.
Spindle-spun Superwash BFL which I dyed in 'Apple Blossom' colours. This is about 225 metres of dk weight yarn, I'm planning to make some (small) socks with it.
Experimenting with teeny, tiny spindles for earrings.
Left: Cocktail stick, black bone disc, sock darning thread. 23mm.
Right: Q-tip, labradorite. 37mm.
I've also found some mismatched bamboo knitting needles that may be useful for larger "whorls" :-) Next stop: Experimenting with oil, beeswax and laquer surfaces.
I change the 2 spindles to my left hand while the ply is being added, then wind onto the 3rd spindle.
Spindle from www.high-lowwhorldropspindle.co.uk/
Fibre from Yarnzombie (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yarnzombie/ and www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5363840)
In Mr Bruntons design of the Stalker he decided to cut the steering arm off the spindles and this dohickie was installed to give a place for the rack and pinion to effect steering and also to hold up the fenders.
Pictured here is what could be pieced together of the orginal after the accident and my new parts copied from it about to be assembled. I decided to modify the fender mount so that the fenders can be removed and replaced without starting over from scratch every time. The original design turned out to be a bit flawed upon re-assembly later on down the road. It turns out the bump in the middle part of the flat plate bottomed out hard on the end of the shocks at full droop and caused the front wheels to turn to center and lock in place.
purchased from Carolina Homespun -
Greensleeves Connie's Mjolinor spindle, wild olive whorl, mahogany shaft, .5 oz.